The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-12-20

have ever had since they have been in business.
Two of them have advertised in the last few days
tor one hundred houses, and today Mr.. Tally told
me that he actually left his Office because he was
bored by people who wanted TO get somewhere to
live in this town.
Mr. Scott told me that he could put tenants in 500
houses In thirty days from tomorrow. They tell us
we nave lost in population There are just as many
houses in Atlanta today and more and they are all
full. Well, If the population has decreased, who
MS them? Perhaps they are occupied by shades Of
Lincoln and Jefferson and Monroei
distinguished friend of mne-and he is my
friend and worthy of your confidence always
printed yesterday some figures to show that there
were fewer street taxes this year than last He was
correct as far as he WENT but he did not get to the
forks of the creek.
He took his figures from the tax assessors books.
Now, the men who give in their taxes rich men,
careful men, like Judge Hillyer and Major Campbell
Walace---not like me and few fellows around me.
This is is important, because those figures looked
like something. He showed that the number Of
persons who paid street tax in 1885 was S,s1l. He
showed that the number who paid their tax at the
assessors office in 1856 $500 That shows an ap
parent decrease sof PA people. Well, am seek
ing after truth and that sorter staggered me-
as that fact?" asked. SIS that the end of it,"
askedlJudge Hillyer, and he has been stuffng me
anyhow. mo. In addition to the men who gave
in at the tax assessors office in 1885, there were L.
$50 who were looked up'--made to. pay
with little addition. That made total of 1894.
Next year there were 900 people who gave in or pa
less than the year before, but they;found out among
the hedges and byways S,4c0 one of whom ! have
no doubt was which. THAT makes o total of l206i
total taxes raid last year. against 1894 the year be-
fore, showing gaiu in this good old city of 1910
poll taxes.
The figures for this year have not been furnished.
To be perfectly frank, they have not got me yet
think they will show an increase of three or four
thousand ~pon taxes in this city, twothirds Of
which, in my honest conviction are due 20 prohibi-
ton. These are the figures. They came through
Judge Hillyer to me, and give them to you without
change. There are so more children in attendance
at the schools this year than last. How do you &C.
count for that? [Laughterl 1t has been two years
since prohibition was adopted, and there are 500
more children in the schools. That means one of
two things, and you take either horn Of the di
lemma, either there are more people here or there
are more people able to send to school. Take the
fact of owning houses, Artemus Ward says
"A man may die for his home, but who ever heard
: of a man dying for his boarding house?" / say to
you here, it is the poor mans home, and the poor
mans home alone that has stood time and again
between Jay Gould and Vanderbilt and the enraged
mob of American workingmen. 1t is the conserya-
tism OF the homecoming wage-worker that has kept
socialism out of the admirable labor organization
In the last two years there have been 6S citizens
who have become home owners, against 153 in the
TWO years previous. Owing no man and owning no
man, as master, wearing the collar of no faction
free born American citizens, not quibbling about
personal liberty, but standing with wife and little
ones honest and independent, ABOVE penuTy and
degradation. Applause.
There are great many things about prohibition